After diving in with meteor.js and some open source projects with Code For Boston I decided to upgrade from my default text editor I was using to something more robust. I’ve been a fan of Notepad++ for quite a while but have yet to really expand into doing any semblance of proper coding with it. After searching around and hearing recomendations from folks I settled on Sublime Text 3. It’s really robust, has a package management system that is quite expansive and has some intellisense that is expandable.

As someone who has mainly worked in the same stack the last 6 years (C#, Asp.net, SQL Server) diving into something new is pretty exciting. Other than toying around with a few of the MVC libraries in Javascript, I’ve not really with much outside of the Microsoft Stack. With the new .net stuff coming down the pipe, WebAPI, ASPvNext, OWIN and the Katana project, I thought I’d take a look to see what else was available out there. I’ve always found one of the cool ways to discover new tech is to look to what tech people in hackathons are using. One such project I chanced upon is MBTA Ninja, it’s a hackathon project built over a weekend at [Code Across Boston]. Users Report issues with MBTA subway lines that are then shared with all users in real time. The app is built ontop of Meteor.js which itself sits upon Node.js.

I’ve been playing around with Markdown for quite a while but haven’t really used it for much besides documenting a few things in email and/or on some wiki sites for my work. But the idea of easily blogging with it has crossed my mind, and it seemed like the natural way to do this would be to use something like markdown to quickly, write and parse something into HTML.